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Top Ten Thursday - Make My Day

Today we are listing the top ten things that recently made our day, made us laugh or at least smile, just a collection of positive moments!My first day(s) back to our everyday routine were tough. Not only didn't I understand where the time went: didn't we only just leave for our vacation, and already it was over..? I haven't even managed to put together a post telling you guys about our trip! But also jet-lag, which is a bitch, in case I haven't mentioned.Anyway. My days had their moments...

I was beyond tired and wanted to take a nap. Yet I had to pick up Colin and drive him to practice. Just as I was getting out of my car and hoisting the gigantic hockey bag out of my narrow-ish trunk, Lars and another guy went past me, talking to each other. Lars stopped for a second, looked me in the eye, smiled and said "hi!" I knew for sure that nobody else was standing behind me, so he really meant to greet little old me. As casually as possible I said "hi", back, quickly jumped into my car and sped off. Now I know I sound like a bad case of high school crush, and maybe I am. It's just that we have never met in person. Up until 2009 he used to be our hockey goalie. Today he's a regular at sports TV during hockey playoffs and the manager of our farm team, and as such he happens to be on some of the e-mail distribution lists I am on as a hockey Mom. This is how one day my LinkedIn app - even though I explicitly checked "skip this step" - sent out invitations to all my contacts that have ever been in my inbox. I noticed when people I barely knew accepted. Lars was one of them. Either he's desperate for friends or he liked my profile. I used to work for ice cream and coffee companies plus an airline, what's not to like, right? So to cut the long story short, that Monday in the parking lot he must have confused me for somebody else or he recognized me from my profile picture, knew he was supposed to know me, but couldn't recall my name. There is a small possibility we crossed path at hockey day camp, but that was years ago. Either way that certainly made my hazy day. Did I mention I think he's handsome and - for the lack of better words - hugely likable?

My Mom got a hot air balloon ride for her birthday, and she picked the most gorgeous day. After they took off roughly 8 miles away, I drove back home, parked my car and climbed our local hill because they were planning on passing by.

On my way up I met my 5 yo name sister I only knew by name because her aunt is a friend of mine. She agreed a picture of the two Tamaras was in order!

While decorating for Halloween I dressed up our Christmas Elf for a photo shooting. Made me feel super silly and conspiratorial. I'm going to use this picture this season.

Speaking of Halloween, of course we had a party, and of course we went trick or treating.

This alone is certainly reason to smile and be happy about, and I'll blog about it some more when I have time.

What especially made me smile is what I discovered the morning after... Meet Mr glow-in-the-dark Bones, he likes to hang out with us:

The boys thought it was best to handcuff him!

The other weekend it was Colin's and his buddy's turn to welcome our farm team's and their opponent's top scorers at the beginning of the game.

As we arrived he claimed to be thirsty, and we had just enough time to fulfill a promise I must have made a while ago: to have a drink at the Skylounge - the bar on the top floor of the high-rise building next to the hockey arena. Yes, it's Switzerland. Nobody bats an eye if you take a 9yo to a bar.

Then I dropped him off at the locker room to go and get ready. It was the cutest thing. He's the shorter one on the left:

Colin and his teammates were invited to a surprise event. We didn't know what they were ging to do between 2-7/7:30pm, (I'm working on a post about this...) the only hint was that they were supposed to bring an extra sweater in case theirs got dirty, and that us parents needed to help carry something upon pick-up. This is what they made, a hockey gingerbread house, isn't that adorable?

Sorry, more hockey. This Sunday was Swiss Hockey Day and our team's Skaeathon. Colin ran his rounds with the head coach:

As I'm writing this, I am pretty annoyed about Colin and his friends who are visiting, so I'm only half-heartedly smiling about my post, but I'm sure tomorrow is a new day, and I'm gonna feel fuzzy about it.PS: later that day he made it up to me. One reason that made me mad was that they experimented with "fingerprint powder" on Daddy's messy desk. The black dust was all over his documents, and what's worse, his keyboard. In an effort to clean it up the bathroom where he moistened the cloth was all squirted. Anyway, one tool in his investigator box is "invisible ink" with which he wrote "love you, Mommy" on a piece of paper. In order to read it you need an UV lamp which he provided. Aaawwww. How about you? What are the little things that make your day? Tell me in the comment section down below or link up your own post. Lately it's been Pamela and myself, we'd sure like some company!

What's next?

On November 16 let's list the top ten things you're very specific about, like whether you drink Coke or Pepsi, or if the toilet paper needs to go over or under... ;-) sign up here.

Even then, it'd probably be super hard to choose the most awesome one! Did I tell you that I love fireworks? I love them even better when they include the following: they are being displayed near a body of waterthey are being displayed near some nice scenerythere is some music going along with it For that reason, Sydney, Australia is definitely one that I'd consider one of the most awesome ones.

The Eiffel Tower in Paris, France is also a great place for a fireworks / music show!

Last month I signed up for Blog with friends on impulse because I learned that the theme was going to be "green".

Now for this month "starting fresh" was chosen. Against my better judgment - because I knew I was going to be super busy posting every day throughout the month of April - I thought wouldn't it fit nicely into my A - Z fitness series, so here I am again!

It's safe to say that in January I started fresh.

It all began innocently enough.

I was sitting over at my friend's house, enjoying the King's cake I made and the Prosecco that was my Christmas gift to her, and I said "after today there will be no more sweets and bubbly until I fit back into my jeans. I might even go as far as taking up some sporty activities, I wish there were some good old Aerobics classes."

Doris told me about Vicky, her former neighbor. That lady is originally from Scotland and runs a fitness studio a 10 minutes' drive from here. As far as Doris knew Vicky …

Welcome back to 20 Days of Chill. Today's prompt is #Hashtag, and I thought I'd find out about the top 20 most popular hashtags on Instagram (Source: Huffington Post)

That is pretty generic if not lame! I think the only one I've ever used is #happy, actually it was #100happydays.

Of course I am intrigued now. How do I figure out my own most popular hashtags? Good thing I know people who know stuff. A blogger friend recommended Union Metrics, an app that analyzes just about anything you want to know about your Social Media Accounts! What day and time is best to post, who your biggest fans are, the post with the most likes, the post with the most comments,...

Unfortunately the free part of the tool only teases you, and you end up subscribing...

Surprise, recurring themes / hashtags were most popular. And this is what I paid 29 bucks for? Note: cancel account, get free one, like Iconosquare: